Savyon Liebrecht

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Savyon Liebrecht

Savyon Liebrecht ( Hebrew סביון ליברכט, Born January 13, 1948 as Sabine Sosnowski in Munich ) is an Israeli writer .

Life

Savyon Liebrecht was born to Polish-Jewish parents who survived the Holocaust. She grew up in Israel and studied philosophy and literature in Tel Aviv . During her military service she began her literary activity. She wrote plays, television scripts, novels and short stories that have also appeared in German.

“ I had neither grandparents nor aunts nor cousins. But we pretended to be normal , says Savyon Liebrecht. To this day she does not know how many of her relatives were killed in concentration camps because her parents were silent. "

In 2007 her play Die Banalität der Liebe about Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger premiered in German translation in Bonn , before the world premiere in Tel Aviv: a political and moral love play. The Israeli composer Ella Milch-Sheriff set the banality of love to music , and the opera premiered in January 2018 at the Regensburg Theater .

In 1987 Liebrecht received the Alterman Prize in Israel , in 2002 she received the Amelia Rosselli Prize of the City of Rome. In Israel she was twice playwright of the year.

Works

  • Apples from the Desert: Stories , From the Hebr. by Stefan Siebers, Mannheim: Persona-Verl., 1992
  • The strange women novel, from the Hebr. by Vera Loos and Naomi Nir-Bleimling, Munich: Dt. Paperback publishing, 2002
  • A man and a woman and a man Roman, From the Heb. by Stefan Siebers, Munich: Dt. Paperback publishing, 2002
  • A good place for the seven night stories. From the Heb. by Vera Loos and Naomi Nir-Bleimling, Munich: Dt. Paperback publishing, 2005
  • My father's wives , From the Heb. by Vera Loos and Naomi Nir-Bleimling, Munich: Dt. Paperback publishing, 2008

German-language premieres of the pieces

  • Look at me and speak , Stadttheater Bern 2006
  • Sonia Mushkat , Schauspiel Bonn 2007
  • Do i speak chinese , Theater Kiel 2007
  • the banality of love , Schauspiel Bonn 2007

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.taz.de/index.php?id=archivseite&dig=2007/03/03/a0173
  2. ↑ Music theater review : More than a love story, by Michaele Schabel , January 29, 2018, accessed on March 12, 2018
  3. ↑ Come on, show me being! , updated February 2, 2018, accessed March 12, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Liebrecht, Savyon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sosnowski, Sabine (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli author
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich